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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are Walls parents so insecure??  It’s a well known fact that Walls is not a STEM school and is a humanities school.  And that is OK.  Every school has its strengths and weaknesses.

Starting the smug post above is really a poor showing for the Walls crowd.[/quote]

No dog in this fight, but I SO disagree. DCI boostering on here is insane. The latest has been "Walls doesn't even have a Robotics team, I don't care if PP claims their kid is on it" and "Walls teams sucks and DCI's is amazing, who would ever send their STEM kids to Walls?" So the Walls parent comes along and is like, look, both teams exist and did comparably -- if not very well -- at the first tournament. The only reason this is even relevant is the crazy and constant DCI boostering. DCI seems like a perfectly good place to send kids, but they NEED it to be better than Walls and they need everyone to agree with them. Most people don't, so they get sad.[/quote]

No, I’ve been following this thread from the get go and no one said anything you wrote in quotes above.

There was no boosting but a family stated that they were not considering Walls because it did not offer certain STEM courses.  Then there were so many pages and pages of Walls families coming on saying this and that about the school and STEM offerings.  Questions were then asked about specifics, one of which was about the robotics competition which did not get answered until way later on.

I suggest you re-read the thread.  It wasn’t about DCI boosting but more about Walls families trying to justify as to why if you have a STEM kid, you can send your kid there.

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Everybody in the thread invested in the DCI boosterism sidetrack should read pages 10-13 of the DCI 24-25 Annual report detailing student performance ( https://dcinternationalschool.org/organizational-transparency/ ) and look at the 8th grade Science CAPE results (19% meets/exceeds, 46 out of 246 students).

Setting aside Walls for STEM, the real choice may be between DCI and homeschooling with a few Museum of the Bible field trips to learn about evolution. :P [/quote]

Why do Walls families continue to try to put down DCI and present things out of context text?  It’s so tiring.

I looked at above and the ELA and Math scores for the school for 4 and above is high for a non-selective school.

As to the science, that is actually pretty good where many middle schools in DC the percentages are single digits.  Also if you look at Deal their number is only 30% considering how much lower wealthier the families and lower at risk kids.

DCI is doing a good job educating kids in this town.[/quote]

This.  Brookland middle, IB for lots of familias, science is only 1.6%.  Huge difference and at least the school still has kids take standardized science tests so know where they stand and can place kids appropriately.  Also good info for parents.

You can’t say same of DCPS which has completely stopped testing in science.  I hear the new Amplify science curriculum they have implemented  is terrible too.[/quote]

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